Until the day when an LTS release optimizes for this programming construct, it is best to view these Java recursion examples as educational tools. Stick with iterative constructs in the systems you ...

What's the word on recursion in production code ... for production code. If a function is easier to conceptually visualize recursively (tree/graph searches, for example), I'll do it that way ...

A properly tail-call-optimized recursive function is mostly equivalent to an iterative loop at the machine code level. Another consideration is that iterative loops require destructive state ...